Governing under advanced liberalism: sport policy and the social investment state

Since the election in 1997 of a New Labour Government in the United Kingdom, a growing number of analyses have provided insights into, and critiques of, what has been termed the “social investment state”. To date, these analyses have interrogated particular developments and distinct issues in a number of key social welfare policy-related sectors, including education, citizenship, the family, and poverty/employment. Notable by its absence, however, is the contribution that policies for sport and physical activity are now playing in the realisation of New Labour’s social investment strategies. This article therefore interrogates and registers the growing salience of sport policy interventions for the construction of a social investment state within the broader political context of governing under “advanced liberal” rationalities. The “active citizen”, and children and young people, in particular, are valorised and appear centre-stage as the focus for these interventions. This child-centred focus is problematised, as is the argument that, under prevailing political rationalities of advanced liberalism, government “steers” rather than “rows” and “enables” rather than “commands”. Under these conditions, while children are deemed deserving of investment, there may be other groups who are deemed less deserving, for example, older people who, unlike children and young people have little currency in a future-oriented world.

Adolescent Children of Adolescent Mothers: The Impact of Family Functioning on Trajectories of Development

This study drew on four cycles of longitudinal data from the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth to examine the academic and behavioural trajectories of youth between 10 and 15 years of age as a function of maternal age at childbearing. The analyses controlled for several family characteristics and examined the mediating effects of three family functioning variables (maternal depression, and nurturing and rejecting parenting behaviours). Maternal age was related to academic competency in math (standardized Math scores), externalizing disorders (Property Offences, Hyperactivity-Inattention), and internalizing disorders (Anxiety-Emotional Disorder). After accounting for family characteristics, the children of the young and older teen mothers retained their disadvantage in Math scores and Property Offences, respectively, whereas the children of older mothers lost the advantages that they had exhibited at age 10 (for Property Offences, the benefits were mediated through family functioning). These results have implications for future research and for the development of policy and programming targeting the healthy development of youth.

孔子教育思想对高校教育改革的作用研究

孔子教育思想对当代高校教育有不可忽视的作用。高校应借鉴孔子"因材施教"、"学思结合"、"启发诱导"、"身正不倦"等教育观点,搞好个性化教育,加强大学生素质培养,采取有效措施,使学习方式和培养模式多样化,满足大学生就业的要求,为他们干事创业提供坚实的平台。     

略论发起人违反出资义务时对公司承担民事责任的性质

发起人违反出资义务是指发起人违反发起人协议和公司章程的约定,不履行或者不按约定履行对公司承担的交付出资财产义务的行为。发起人违反出资义务会产生对其他守约发起人、公司以及特定情形下的公司债权人的民事责任。从现行民商事立法看,发起人违反出资义务时对公司承担的民事责任在性质上并非违约责任、侵权责任或者违约责任与侵权责任的竞合,而是一种公司法上的特殊的独立的债不履行责任。当然,如果将来相关民商事立法有较大的修订则另当别论。     

海外投资保险制度立法的思考

海外投资保险法是对海外投资进行保护、促进和规范的有效法律手段,我国应当借鉴他国经验尽快建立海外投资保险法律制度。结合海外投资保险的性质特点、国外的经验和我国的资本发展的现状和趋势,我国应以海外投资保险体制、保险范围、投资承保的条件和海外投资保险机制等四个方面加强海外投资保险方法。     

论国际投资法的自由化趋势

受经济全球化和贸易自由化的影响,当前阶段国际投资法呈现出前所未有的自由化趋势。这表现在东道国外资法、双边投资条约、区域性投资条约以及国际多边投资条约上,但它们在自由化趋势上又各有不同特点。     

银川经济增长与投资的实证分析

改革开放以来,银川市的经济有了较快发展,其中投资具有举足轻重的作用。投资充分发挥了其拉动经济增长的作用。但与此同时,投资效率不高、消费和出口需求未能发挥其应有的作用,这是今后应解决的问题。     

Does political connection influence corporate financial decisions in unstable political environment?

The aim of this study is to examine the impact of political connection on the cost of debt, the cost of equity and the investment level in an unstable political environment. We use a sample of 55 Tunisian listed firms during the post-revolution period (2011–2018) and we apply a generalized least square (GLS) approach to test our hypotheses. Findings highlight that political connections increase the corporate financial costs and reduce the investment level. Furthermore, in an additional analysis, we show on the one hand that political instability negatively affects the investment and affects positively the cost of debt and the cost of equity. On the other hand, we make evidence that the political instability level negatively affects the relation between the political connection and the cost of debt. The contribution is, to the best of our knowledge, the absence of studies conducted in Tunisia countries examining the impact of political connection on the financial cost and investment level in an unstable political environment such as Tunisia.     

推动习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想“往心里走”的成效、问题与对策——基于两次问卷调查的数据分析

当前推动习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想“往心里走”的举措具有整体性、全面性的特点。基于项目组开展的一系列调研,从基本认知、情感认同、行为考察等三个层面得出目前“往心里走”取得一定成效。但同时,在教育培训、自主学习、主动践行、社会宣传和评价体系等方面也面临诸多问题。应以体制机制创新推动教、学、用、宣的联动和集成;发挥领导干部、行业精英、教师群体等关键人群的带动、示范、引导作用;进一步发挥党校(行政学院)、社会主义学院、干部学院等主阵地在基层教育培训中的重要作用;坚持以引导性原则、实用性原则、层次性原则构建“往心里走”的评价体系。     

Place and Policy Preferences – Spatial Divides in Attitudes towards Social Policies in Germany

The rise of the knowledge economy has led to a bifurcation between prosperous, often urban, areas and “left-behind” regions. While the literature has started to analyse the political implications of these developments for electoral behaviour and socio-cultural attitudes, the structuring of social policy preferences by place remains unclear. Distinguishing between an economic (booming-declining) and a geographic (urban–rural) dimension, I argue that differences in material self-interest and ideological predispositions explain spatial divides in support for different types of social policies. Combining original survey data on voters' preferences with municipal-level data in Germany, I show that general support for social policy is higher in declining than in booming regions. However, social investments (e.g., active labour market policies) are preferred over consumption policies (e.g., unemployment benefits) in booming and, to a smaller degree, in urban than in declining and rural regions. These findings contribute to a bigger discussion on compensating “left-behind” regions.